The Pumpkin Patch – Open Beta 0.31 Patch Notes

The Pumpkin Patch will introduce some new Halloween flavored cards and designs to the game as well as some card balance and bug fixes!

OPEN BETA 0.31 – THE PUMPKIN PATCH

WHAT’S NEW

Halloween Pack

The Halloween Pack will introduce our first set of Limited Edition Skins for Hand of the Gods! These skins feature a new unit model, Special FX, Sound FX, and Card Art.

The Halloween Pack will be purchasable for 300 Runes and unlock one of the following with each opened:

Grim Mariachi Loki (1 Copy)

Jack the Reaper Thanatos (2 Copies)

Slaughterhouse Chaac (2 Copies)

Feline Fashion Awilix (2 Copies)

Limited Edition Pum-Pukin Avatar

Limited Edition Vesuvius Card Back

Each Halloween Pack opened will unlock a skin, avatar, or card back you have not already unlocked. Halloween Skins are not disenchantable, and will only be available for the duration of the promotion.

Default Avatar

This has been changed to match the Hand of the Gods Logo.

GENERAL

Players can no longer be matched against the same player twice in a row.

New players will now be given a Bonus Pack for completing their first Casual, Arena, and Ranked match. These rewards will also be given retroactively to all active players.

From this patch on, all players will receive a free Arena Ticket at level 1 which grants one free entry to the Arena.

Ranks will reset with OB 0.31 and are planned to reset every 2 months going forward. This marks the start of our “Open Beta Season” and players can expect ranked rewards to be sent out with each future reset.

Arena rewards for 10, 11, and 12 wins have been adjusted.

10 wins: 600 Favor and 2 Core Packs

11 wins: 450 Favor and 3 Core Packs

12 Wins 575 Favor and 3 Core Packs

BALANCE

Arachne

Cost reduced to 2

Attack reduced from 5 to 1.

Health reduced from 5 to 2.

Spiderling is now type Beast.

Lernaean Hydra

Now only gains +3/+0 when attacking.

BUG FIXES

Added Special FX for Bulwark.

Sprint can no longer be cast on Pillars.

Anhur now properly stops Skadi from activating her Warcry.

Anhur now properly stops Sagittarius from activating his Warcry.

Illusion now properly clones buffs gained through Sobek’s ability.

Fixed an issue where Kumbhakarna was unable to receive attack buffs if silenced before he was reincarnated.

Fixed an interaction with Illusion that would kick both players to lobby.